I Wonder What!
Quote from Cliff_C on May 17, 2024, 9:00 amMy workplace is at Dyce, ABZ.
On the way home the road drives parallel with the runway and I always keep an eye open for anything unusual. Before I joined up I spent some happy years as a member of the ATC, ending up as a very proud sixteen year old corporal. I was bulling my boots before I joined JLR. So I have always been interested in airplanes, even won the Javelin trophy for aircraft recognition (1975).
Back to ABZ, I am driving North and approaching the runway I see a dark exhaust trail from a four engined cargo plane. Very unusual I thought, only military planes would be allowed to be putting that amount of pollution into the sky. As the big bird flew by I was amazed, it was an Antov 12 (Cub), old Soviet cargo plane.
I did some checking up and traced the route it had taken, Nigeria, Tenerife, Aberdeen.
Back at work, my classroom overlooks the runway, I watched this cub for four days. It was parked at the far end of the runway and a green landrover parked next to it. Occasionally there would be green trucks loading cargo. Next day it was gone, this time it couldn't be traced other than it is Ukrainian registered.
There certainly is a lot more military traffic in the North east skies than there used to be.
All the best
Cliff
My workplace is at Dyce, ABZ.
On the way home the road drives parallel with the runway and I always keep an eye open for anything unusual. Before I joined up I spent some happy years as a member of the ATC, ending up as a very proud sixteen year old corporal. I was bulling my boots before I joined JLR. So I have always been interested in airplanes, even won the Javelin trophy for aircraft recognition (1975).
Back to ABZ, I am driving North and approaching the runway I see a dark exhaust trail from a four engined cargo plane. Very unusual I thought, only military planes would be allowed to be putting that amount of pollution into the sky. As the big bird flew by I was amazed, it was an Antov 12 (Cub), old Soviet cargo plane.
I did some checking up and traced the route it had taken, Nigeria, Tenerife, Aberdeen.
Back at work, my classroom overlooks the runway, I watched this cub for four days. It was parked at the far end of the runway and a green landrover parked next to it. Occasionally there would be green trucks loading cargo. Next day it was gone, this time it couldn't be traced other than it is Ukrainian registered.
There certainly is a lot more military traffic in the North east skies than there used to be.
All the best
Cliff
Quote from jkwebster06 on May 17, 2024, 8:21 pmWhat goes on we know nothing about eh ! I didn't even know that Dyce had an airport and that ABZ was the official abbreviation for Aberdeen ! We learn every day, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, and sometimes stuff I should have known !! Keep us informed Cliff, your posts are always interesting. John (JKW)
What goes on we know nothing about eh ! I didn't even know that Dyce had an airport and that ABZ was the official abbreviation for Aberdeen ! We learn every day, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, and sometimes stuff I should have known !! Keep us informed Cliff, your posts are always interesting. John (JKW)